Code & Development

Are you familiar with the Microsoft Web Platform Installer and the integrated Web Applications Gallery? These Microsoft offers made it easy to install and configure Drupal on Windows. But when building, optimizing and deploying Drupal on Windows and IIS it was still difficult. Come see the beta of a brand new product from Microsoft that covers the entire workflow, from pulling down the latest build of Drupal for Windows all the way to deploying it to a hosted environment, all in one place.

In this session we will explore Drupal 7 entities, bundles and fields from a coders perspective. This will be a technical overview of the changes that have been introduced to content types in Drupal 7 and will walk through the creation of a basic content type including widgets, fields and formatters.

The zombie apocalypse is on the way. Thankfully, we have the tools to prepare ourselves. This presentation will cover the use of geospatial databases to store and process geographic data. Further, this presentation will show how geospatial databases can be integrated with Drupal to form the perfect tool to prepare ourselves for the impending hoards of the undead.

Have you ever been frustrated by the way you and your team work with Drupal, finding yourself replicating change after change or following complex and error-prone protocols to get your latest development to that production site? Do you want to be able to reuse your settings and configuration across different projects, thus speeding up your development process? Are you looking for ways to work more efficiently with your team on a Drupal project, but haven't figured entirely how?

Gallery API - is an API module that was developed to combine all gallery and slideshow modules together. We bring an API that can be used to develop data layer (input method), which gives us slides and presenting layer (output method) that is responsible for displaying the gallery. The main advantage of this system is that you can create Gallery presets (just like Imagecache presets) and use any input method with any output method.

Session plan:
1. A problem of all existing gallery and slideshow modules
2. The proposed solution
3. Gallery API structure and aim

Come learn strategies for geo-targetting content to users of your Drupal sites. This session will cover the tools used for achieving geo-targetted content. Case studies will be presented on how these tools can be used to selectively present content based on where they are in the world.

Apache SOLR is an emerging new technology to support all major Drupal site's powerful search. But it's not just searching that it does.

With Apache SOLR your site can do a lot more than just faceted searching fast and easy. You can use SOLR to power your Views, Panels, Übercart and a lot of other stuff, with some new contrib modules.

Because I didn't get to goto Drupalcon SF to presesnt in person I though the European Drupalist would care to hear a revisted version of the speech

Nutch is an open web crawler that lets you do fine grained or Internet wide web crawling. In this session I will introduce you to the Drupal Nutch module, which will help with the setup and control of your crawls. We will combine this with some of the new features in the Apache Solr, Views 3 and Apache Solr views to create hybrid search engine vertical that interleaves your content with supporting web content.

The Agenda will be:

Drupal has been frequently criticized for its "non-OO architecture". While Drupal's architecture is very powerful, elegantly unique and uses many object-oriented design principles on a higher level, it is true that modules are not objects and most of the code is a procedural collection of simple functions. Historically heavy object-oriented design has been avoided for the sake of compatibility with PHP 4.x Now that Drupal only supports PHP 5 it's probably worth to think about more OO implementation.